Figure Skating Costumes

I used to think this was a really ugly dress, but now that I really look at it, I actually like the colours and the 3D fun… it’s just that awful illusion fabric that disturbs me so. It makes the whole dress look heavy and mouldy.

Adelina Sotnikova’s Liebesträume long program costume at the 2011 Cup of Russia, 2012 Junior Worlds and 2012 Youth Olympics.

Sources: 1, 2 and 3.

Idora Hegel’s free skate costume at the 2004 NHK Trophy.

Sources: 1 and 2.

Ashley Cain skating to Clair de Lune for her short program at the 2010 Novice US National Championships.

Photos by Robert Walker and trilby23.

Silvia Fontana’s short program costume at the 1996 Skate Canada.

Photos by Barry Mittan. 1 and 2.

Shelby Hall’s free program costume at the 2013 Junior Canadian National Championships.

(Source: flickr.com)

Sasha Cohen skating to One Day I’ll Fly Away in the 2002 Trophée Lalique gala.

Photos by Barry Mittan. 1 and 2.

Yagmur Aksoy’s short program costume at the 2012 Novice Bavarian Open.

Fumie Suguri’s free skate dress at the 2001 Goodwill Games and 2001 Skate Canada. Her music was Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

Photos by Barry Mittan. 1 and 2.

Fabienne Sperling’s short program dress at the 2012 Novice Bavarian Open.

Nicole Rajic skating her long program at the 2010 Novice US National Championships.

Photos by trilby23.

(Source: pbase.com)